Stereotypes and harmful practices

The State party should systematically collect disaggregated data on harmful practices in the State party and report them to the Committee in its next periodic report.

The State party should strengthen primary and secondary education on gender stereotypes, prejudice, gender identity and gender roles, including on various forms of stereotypes affecting minority women and girls, in particular Sami women and women with a migrant background.

The State party should allocate resources for research into the root causes and possible impact of oversexualized representations of girls and women in the media and the possible connections between sexualization and pornography and the root causes of gender-based violence, in particular in relation to girls.

The State party should step up the implementation of the action plan against hate speech, which should provide for a monitoring mechanism to assess the impact of the measures taken and design remedial action, with a special focus on women facing intersecting forms of discrimination based on gender and racially, ethnically, religiously and nationalistically motivated hate speech, lesbian, bisexual and transgender women and intersex persons, and women with disabilities.

The State party should amend section 185 of the Penal Code to add gender to the list of actions that qualify as criminal hateful expressions.